Rerouted

It's funny, but often after I've finished working out, God will fill my heart or mind with thoughts of Him and the gospel, and I'll get inspired to do or write something. Maybe with my mind freshly invigorated, I am more alert to His voice and nearness by His Spirit...anyways, it's wonderful!

Today, as I was stretching in the quiet of my room :D, I believe the Lord gave me this (what I'm calling) poetic exhortation; it is paradoxically my own experience, testimony, and continual prayer. I wrote it as it came to me so please forgive its weaknesses. I pray that it will bless and encourage you...and most importantly give you a glimpse of God's amazing love for His children, that you might desire to know more of it!

Rerouted

Sisters, do not awaken love until its time....
If someone pursues you and wins your heart,
wants some of that love;
then blocks its powerful rush,
turns and leaves, changes his mind;
do not dam it up, grieve,
then yield to the lover of your soul.
Ask him to come and break a new route
for that love to flow:
to the ones in need,
to the lost, those without hope,
towards His Son
through which love comes to you.
Where human love fails,
God's perfect love prevails.

God does bind up our hearts
if we give them to him,
and through his miraculous work,
we are not the same when He is done.
In healing, we know a deeper love,
we know the tenderness of His hands--
when renewed, that broken heart
beats stronger after his.